The job got done without the police department being militarized, in spite of the incompetent state governor.
The way situations like this are supposed to work is that the state Governor who is an elected official is supposed to authorize the national guard to use their equipment to aid law enforcement.
If anything goes awry or indeed, if the citizenry disapproves the only response needed to punish the person who authorized the response is to vote for someone else in the next election.
That is why the founding fathers set it up that way and they knew damned well what they were doing.
The National Guard was at work at their civilian jobs.
It would take hours to get everyone needed to launch a mission.